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Posted May 16, 2012 07:08 pm - Updated May 16, 2012 07:17 pm

Dope smell leads to drug charge

Officers arrested a suspected drug dealer Tuesday after they smelled burnt marijuana wafting from an apartment building’s breezeway where a group of men gathered, then chased and caught the only man who tried to run away, Athens-Clarke police said.

After the man was in custody, police noticed a bag of marijuana in plain sight inside his car at Dogwood Park Apartments, 198 Old Hull Road. A search of the car turned up cellphones, a scale and plastic bags for packaging pot, police said.

Horace Eugene Wise, 25, of 1133 Old Creek Road, was charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana, loitering and prowling and obstruction of a law enforcement officer, police said.